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Study to Test Whether Shoes Protect Children Against Hookworm Infection on Pemba Island, Zanzibar

NCT01869127 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1056

Last updated 2013-06-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Small association studies have hypothesised that shoes protect against hookworm infection. The purpose of this pragmatic study was determine, under field conditions, whether school-age children on Pemba Island, Zanzibar, would wear shoes and if shoes protected them against hookworm infection.

Conditions

  • Hookworm

Interventions

DEVICE

Shoes

A unisex canvas slip-on with a sturdy sole.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

    collaborator OTHER

  • Fondazione Ivo de Carneri, Milan, Italy

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Bird, Christopher

    lead INDIV

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher K Bird, MBBS

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-07-31
Primary Completion
2012-10-31
Completion
2012-10-31

Countries

  • Tanzania

Study Locations

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